[TheBattman]

Update 4/14/2004

She is up to 3 lbs 11.6 oz – surpassing her birth weight.

Still eating well – 33 cc every 3 hours

We actually caught the Dr. while at the hospital this morning. He is impressed with her progress. He said that really, all we are waiting for is for her to put on the weight.

She is even improving at being able to keep body heat.

Dr. did give us an interesting fact – The majority of full-term babies do best on breast milk, while (contrary to logic) premies have a tendency to not tolerate breast milk well. In fact, he stated that only about 25% of premies do well on breast milk.

He said that in the cases where there is some problem with tolerance, they will mix 50% breast milk with another product (made from partially broken down milk product?) to ease digestion and provide additional nutrition. Fortunately, he indicated that this was not indicated here, as she is doing a reasonable job of tolerating the breast milk, and is gaining weight.

[cyborg]

Wow I never thought looking at pics of babies with tubes going in and out wpuld be so uncomfortable :( but I'm glad to see the little one is doing well.

[amom]

Now that is ONE SWEET BABY! She's looking so good! Thanks for the update.

[dalebert]

So precious. Looking forward to more updates.

[Okies love Dubya 2]

She looks so much bigger than she did at birth! She is filling out so beautifully every time you post pictures. And I love her in the last picture--all little girls look so sweet in pink.

Her progress sounds phenomenal--thanks be to God!

[sweetliberty]

She is so precious. She looks like her mom. Hopefully she can make her FReeper debut when Jim visits Little Rock. What a great photo that would make. I'm so glad to hear about the improvements.